Monday Match of the Week

90% of you guys that commented about a bad call don't even know the rule about stalling. And 99% of you guys don't have the balls to referee even if you knew the rules. The guy did a fine job reffing.

Wow!!! The first stall call should have never been called, then it would have never been a situation where the 2nd would have sent the match into OT. The 2nd stall can be argued for, however, its a judgement call when a kid is being the agressor for most of the mat. You can see it when the ref calls the 2nd stalling at the end of match hes actually EXCITED to send the match into OT...Horrible call in my opinion.

sooo what did we learn from this match...??? IF THE SCORE IS WITHIN ONE POINT, THE REF'S IN OHIO WILL CALL STALLING AND PUT IT INTO OT NO MATTER WHAT!!!!!!!! this ref, he needs to keep his day job and go FIST himself!!!!!!

Being a former wrestler and having 35 pounds on ian i thought maybe i could go wrestle a few matches with him boy what a dumb idea the boy is very very strong 2 days later i had 2 get my back and neck adjusted at the chiropractor and it cost me 50 bucks think ill stick 2 the excercise bike

WOW that ref should give the money back to the MIT because he BLOWS..........nice job ian. OHio refs need to get better. They try to turn every match into the closest match by making horrific calls. Ohio refs need to stop calling stalling on the top man when he is looking for a turn.

bottom line the stall call was wrong. both kids worked very hard the entire match and a glory seeking ref should not put himself in the match. these kids work harder than most people realize and for the ref to take that from them is flat wrong PERIOD.

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Yes, bad stall call IMHO...still goes to show that you don't "shut down", keep wrestling the whole six minutes.

embarrassed:
i think the stall call was questionable but not as bad as you made it out to be. miller had been awarded 2 backs (which appeared to be the right call, albeit a close one), giving him a 7 to 3 lead, and he then changed his style from aggressor to defender - e.g., he let mattingly up, he then attempted to clamp on his arm, toward slowing him down, he then gave up an easy takedown, and he then went wide base for the remaining ten seconds or so of the match. so while i'm not saying that the stall call was clear (or even the right call, in my opinion), there was at least some basis for it.
in any event, these are two good kids, with strong pedigrees, and both are well-coached. i enjoyed the match, and will look forward to following both for the rest of their careers.
and what a tough draw (both ways) for round 2...
and zeb, coming from a wrestling family, i understand how hard it can be to watch a brother, cousin, etc. go at it. (per my experience, it's harder to watch than it is to actually wrestle.)

First of all I agree Miller was the agressor thruout the match . But I also agree with the stalling call . In the end Miller outworked him in the OT too ,and won the match .
Nice job!

Ok, clearly I agree with the last post, but this site can help officials see how much better they can do, I should have not been ridiculing the official even though Ian is family, I was wrong, just as the official was wrong for a stall call as time expires to send the match into OT. There are good officials in Ohio (Jaksetic's, Anthony's, Dunlap, Derr, Bassinger, the list goes on) but bottom line is they are way too involved in so many of these matches. Quite frankly it is pretty upsetting to me and one of the reason's I am out of coaching.

That was awesome!!